Live highlights from the concert premiere of Cello Sonata No.1 by Edward Bettella, performed 18.11.2017 at St Michael's Church, Bath. Jonathan Stabler/Cello, Edward Bettella/Piano

Cello Sonata No1 Concert Teaser

River is the Venue (RIV) is a partnership project with 44AD, Art at the Heart of the RUH and research academics at the University of Bath, funded through their Public Engagement Programme.

The focus of the project is on historical flooding events in Bath and the fascinating local stories that can be found in the archives.

Amongst various community workshops and activities, the project has commissioned a series of public artworks by local artists, resulting in a trail of temporary outside installations/sculptures related to key historical flood sites in the past 200 years.

As part of the commission Edward Bettella produced 4 short soundscapes inspired by recurring themes of flooding in Bath: Flooding, Destruction, Inaction and Prevention.

All music written and produced by Edward Bettella.

© 2018 Edward Bettella.  All rights reserved.

These soundscapes feature audio recordings from freesound.org:

S: Chicken Single Alarm Call by Rudmer_Rotteveel
S: Baby Crying Slowly PE144001 by gumballworld
S: horse's whinny by Kubuzz
S: LargeWoodenShip.mp3 by PimFeijen
S: Hand Saw Sawing Wood by deleted_user_7146007
S: Hammering Nails, Close, A.wav by InspectorJ

04.Prevention Commentary

4.Prevention

03.Inaction Commentary

3.Inaction

02.Destruction Commentary

2.Destruction

01.Flooding Commentary

1.Flooding

'Sunset Flood' by Edward Bettella; Edward Bettella/piano, Jonathan Stabler/cello

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